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Wrangling Services Contracts In Libraries, Michael Rodriguez
Wrangling Services Contracts In Libraries, Michael Rodriguez
Charleston Library Conference
As more and more academic libraries outsource information technology services and enter into cooperative consortial schemes with other organizations, librarians push into a minefield of contractual negotiations, obligations, and liabilities more complicated and consequential than the typical e-resource licenses is. A poorly wordsmithed license may result in loss of access to journals, whereas becoming entangled in troubled consortia, watching an essential technology go offline during finals week, or getting audited by a vendor without contractual safeguards or recourse can produce much greater financial and administrative burdens. This concurrent session was a crash course in negotiating service contracts favorable to libraries, …
The Long Arm Of The Law, Bill Hannay
The Long Arm Of The Law, Bill Hannay
Charleston Library Conference
This presentation provides updates on three legal issues of pertinence to librarians: The “right to be forgotten,” the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to libraries and universities, and the application of copyright “fair use” doctrine to electronic reserves and electronic course packets.